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Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => The Arts => Attic Treasures => Topic started by: 812558 on March 03, 2009, 10:35:58 PM

Title: Animal Farm
Post by: 812558 on March 03, 2009, 10:35:58 PM

I picked up George Orwells Animal Farm at a book store over the last vacation and blew right through it in about 2 days. I was wondering if anyone else has read it and liked it because i thought it was a fantastic book.

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Post by: DarkWolf91 on March 03, 2009, 10:38:34 PM

I've heard great things about it, but never got around to reading it. I'll definitely pick it up one day :)

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Post by: Kor on March 03, 2009, 11:07:12 PM

I read the book looooong ago.  I also saw an animated version and one that looked more like a live action sort.

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Post by: LBTFan13 on March 03, 2009, 11:24:02 PM

That was one of the only books I read in middle school that I actually liked a lot. It was so well written.

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Post by: landbeforetimelover on March 03, 2009, 11:25:08 PM

This is the ONLY assigned book I've read that I've actually liked.  I've hated every other book that my school's told me to read.

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Post by: Saft on March 04, 2009, 12:47:11 PM

Yes, I have read the novel and seen the animated feature.

Whilst I enjoyed both, I couldn't stop focusing or comparing really about the historical political references.  Which fuelled my enjoyment much more so.

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Post by: Nick22 on March 27, 2009, 02:06:58 AM

One question that always bugged me, is what happened to Snowball/ I know Napolean forced him out.. napolean is a stand-in for Stalin, and Snowball for Trotsky...

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Post by: Kor on March 27, 2009, 02:36:27 AM

As I recall the book didn't say I don't think.  Maybe whatever happened to the rl Trotsky happened to snowball, or he was forced to just leave the farm.

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Post by: Saft on April 01, 2009, 02:18:51 PM

I always thought Snowball had been killed on Napoleon's orders....

I thought he had been either shot or attacked by the dogs?

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Post by: Nick22 on April 01, 2009, 02:39:21 PM

yep, I think he was kiled by the dogs, a comment on Trotsky's murder in 1928.

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Post by: Saft on April 01, 2009, 04:00:56 PM

Yes, he was ripped apart by dogs.

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Post by: Nick22 on April 01, 2009, 04:03:25 PM

we don't se it, bjut it is implied.. at any rate Napolean doesn'y pay any attention to Snowball after he drives him out..

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Post by: Saft on April 01, 2009, 04:05:26 PM

In the animated video version he is attacked by dogs, if I recall correctly.  

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Post by: Nick22 on April 01, 2009, 04:20:01 PM

They chase him from the farm, its not shown if they catch and kill him , buts its implied that they do....

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Post by: Saft on April 01, 2009, 04:32:14 PM

Wasn't there another pig, who Napoloen had killed?  

I know Napoloen sent off Boxer to the glue factory.

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Post by: Nick22 on April 01, 2009, 04:39:28 PM

No,, not that I can recall. Snowpaw was Napolean's main rival. Boxer was a horse..

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Post by: Saft on April 01, 2009, 04:45:38 PM

Sorry Nick, I should have amended what I said:  I know Boxer was the Shire horse.  


I just seem to recall (perhaps it's not an actual recollection maybe a fantasical error on my part) that there was another pig besides Snowball....

I'd have to re-read the book now.


(Edit:To change length of post, return key keeps getting stuck...)

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Post by: Nick22 on April 01, 2009, 04:51:58 PM

there were others pigs on the farm of course, but none of them were as outsoken as Snowball was..

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Post by: Saft on April 01, 2009, 04:54:21 PM

I liked Benjamin the donkey, I think it was his name?

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Post by: Nick22 on April 01, 2009, 04:57:50 PM

Yes, he is one of the few that remembers the rebellion asfter awhile..

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Post by: Caustizer on June 22, 2009, 06:28:08 PM

Now this is an interesting topic.  It was written in 1944 and published a year later just after the end of world war 2. George Orwell must have had some powerful insight to know so much about what happened in Soviet Russia to write a satire about it.

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Post by: Amaranthine on February 24, 2010, 12:17:23 AM

I LOVE this book as well as 1984. George Orwell was definitely a political genius in my opinion.

It was funny, I remember my freshman class either hating it or not understanding it and I finished the whole thing in two days! o.O

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Post by: Kor on February 24, 2010, 01:19:17 AM

I remember reading it long ago, but don't recall much.  I also saw the cartoon and the live action type version also.

One can see it as just an interesting story, or try to find messages within the book.

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Post by: f-22 "raptor" ace on February 24, 2010, 01:23:34 AM

I haven't read this book yet.

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Post by: f-22 "raptor" ace on April 12, 2010, 10:35:51 PM

I watched the animated film version on youtube today and it's inspired me to read the book.

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Post by: Belmont2500 on April 23, 2010, 05:18:04 PM

I watched the live action version yesterday, awesome film but very depressing, all in all....EPIC WIN.

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Post by: Blitz on June 14, 2010, 09:40:52 PM

I've read about it when I was in high school when I took Literature, and I saw the movie as well. It's a really good story to read. XD

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Post by: landbeforetimelover on June 14, 2010, 10:22:29 PM

Since I just graduated less than a week ago, I can say with absolute certainty that this was in fact the only book that I was forced to read in school that was actually tolerable.  The last book I had to read for school was "Floating In My Mother's Palm."  *Shudders*  It was a God awful book.  I could only get halfway through it.  I just winged it on the test and passed with a C-.  Pretty good considering I hadn't even read the end half of the book. :p